Archive for February 7th, 2008
Apple from Braun
Feb 7, 2008 Author: haobam | Filed under: Design
About a week back, I came across this post at Gizmodo, 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future. Now, if you search the net, the comparison goes beyond Braun & Apple and it boils down to two designers.
- Dieter Rams, wiki calls him - one of the most influential industrial designers in the 20th century &
- Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. BBC calls him Armani of Apple.
While INSPIRATION is a complex word, it would be wrong to draw parallel. Myself a self confessed dreamer, would like to believe that these two geniuses separated by time & technology are in some way communicating. Don’t blame for drawing parallel to the movie “The Lake House“. But I won’t blame Jon Ive for chrome lining in the latest iPhone/iPOD touch and giving that retro touch in today’s technology.
Talk about Dieter Rams and his 10 Commandments on Design, which equals to usability in all aspect; now that the world web world is waking up to.
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With great reviews from all corners, the Dark Knight is all over the news. Heath Ledger as the Joker seems to have overshadowed the Batman. Man I'd to go watch it, but the all the weekend shows are booked :(
07/22/2008 - WordPress 2.6 -
Haobam.com upgraded to WordPress2.6. Quite a smooth ride upgrading from v2.5, unlike the last time.
07/16/2008 - Haobam Tilted -
Completed configuring Tiltviewer to showcase my Flickr photos. Great interactive way to display your images. Just love the depth and the way you can play around. Watch it here.
07/11/2008 - AudioTuts -
07/04/2008
Kudos to Collis Ta'eed and team, after the successful quality tutorial sites like PSDTuts, NetTuts, VectorTuts. They have launched another spoonfed tutorial site, AudioTuts. And if you think you can write kickass tutorials they pay you $150 for every tutorial published! - FontExplorer X -
07/03/2008
FontExplorer™ X is a great font management from Linotype. And the best part is, its FREE. Currently only the Mac version is available for download. But check back soon, the Windows version is coming real soon. - Download day 2008 -
06/17/2008
Firefox 3 will be open for download TODAY. Take the pledge, and help set a Guinness World record. It's suppose to have more than 15,000 improvements. - FWA Theatre -
If you visit, FWA for kickass websites. You can try out FWA Theatre for the best of creative video showcase.
06/17/2008 - Woopra... pensive -
Finally got my site approved by Woopra. But sadly, after following all the guidelines, its still not showing any data. Any help, welcome.
06/05/2008 - No spoiler -
Indy 4 released at US today, the net is flooded with Indiana Jones reviews. For me, I'm avoiding all reviews, I hate bad reviews of Indy and above all I HATE SPOILERS. Damn the critics at Cannes. Come May 30 catch me at a multiplex in Bangalore :)
05/22/2008 - Wordpress.com Stats Issue -
Since I update to WordPress 2.5.1, I have this issue with Wordpress.com Stats plugin not tracking visitors. This forum link helped me out. You can try out if you have the same issue.
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